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Stanislau Zhurauliou
Stanislau Zhurauliou ( be, Станіслаў Жураўлёў; born April 14, 1988, in Homel) is a modern pentathlete from Belarus. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, where he finished sixteenth in the men's event, with a score of 5,648 points. Zhurauliou also won a silver medal at the 2012 UIPM World Cup in Rostov-on-Don, Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the .... He currently works as a firefighter in a local department. References External links * archived page from Pentathlon.org 1988 births Living people Belarusian male modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes for Belarus Modern pentathletes at the 2012 Summer Olympics {{Belarus-modern-pentathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homel
Gomel (russian: Гомель, ) or Homiel ( be, Гомель, ) is the administrative centre of Gomel Region and the second-largest city in Belarus with 526,872 inhabitants (2015 census). Etymology There are at least six narratives of the origin of the city's name. The most plausible is that the name is derived from the name of the stream Homeyuk, which flowed into the river Sozh near the foot of the hill where the first settlement was founded. Names of other Belarusian cities are formed along these lines: for example, the name Minsk is derived from the river Menka, Polatsk from the river Palata, and Vitsebsk from the river Vitsba. The first appearance of the name, as "Gomy", dates from 1142. Up to the 16th century, the city was mentioned as Hom', Homye, Homiy, Homey, or Homyi. These forms are tentatively explained as derivatives of an unattested ''*gomŭ'' of uncertain meaning. The modern name for the city has been in use only since the 16th or 17th centuries. History Unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
